By Jacqueline Skalski-Fouts VIRGINIA, USA (IDN) – Since early June, an estimated 15 to 26 million people across the United States have participated in protests against the death of George Floyd and the persistence of systematic racism in America, making it one of the largest movements in the country’s history. Recent trends have shown that […]
Dirty Oil Floods Pristine African Beach in Major Spill
By Lisa Vives, Global Information Network NEW YORK (IDN) – An Indian Ocean island nation, beloved for its sandy beaches, pristine lagoons and reefs, its tropical climate and its multi-ethnic population, has become another world treasure soiled by the relentless trade in oil, shipped by tankers, unsafe at any speed. The ship that ran aground […]
Death Cult Appears to Be Part of Trump’s Reelection Strategy
Viewpoint by Sonali Kolhatkar This article was produced by Economy for All, a project of the Independent Media Institute. Sonali Kolhatkar is the founder, host and executive producer of “Rising Up With Sonali,” a television and radio show that airs on Free Speech TV and Pacifica stations. LOS ANGELES (IDN) – When President Donald Trump […]
Soviet Advance Not U.S. Atomic Bombings Forced Japan To Surrender
Viewpoint by Jonathan Power* LUND, Sweden (IDN) – Seventy-five years ago the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima on August 6 and on Nagasaki on August 9 was premeditated mass murder. President Harry Truman had a workable alternative to using the atom bomb – to cooperate with Stalin, as Roosevelt and Churchill had done on the Western […]
Muslim Songwriter Facing Death Penalty for Blasphemy Revives Bitter Debate in Nigeria
By Lisa Vives, Global Information Network NEW YORK (IDN) – Death sentences are rare in northern Nigeria where Sharia law is implemented alongside secular law in most states. But the recent sentence of a 22-year-old singer to die by hanging has revived an emotional debate in the West African nation. An upper Sharia court in […]
Democracy-Seeking Opposition Prepares To Fight ‘Coups’ In Two African States
By Lisa Vives, Global Information Network NEW YORK (IDN) – Citizen activists in two West African countries, Ivory Coast and Guinea, are rallying their troops on social media to defend the constitutional limit of two terms which current office-holding presidents seem determined to defy. In Abidjan, the Ivory Coast’s commercial capital, police have been firing […]
Russia Sees Neocolonialism as An Investment Barrier in Africa
By Kester Kenn Klomegah MOSCOW (IDN) – Russia not only supported African countries in liberating themselves from the yoke of colonialism and attaining political independence but also facilitated in the UN General Assembly adopting in 1960 the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples. It’s a landmark document which states that […]
Challenging the Dogma of Community Approach to Development
Viewpoint by Dr Yossef Ben-Meir The writer is a sociologist and president of the High Atlas Foundation, a U.S.-Moroccan not-for-profit organization dedicated to sustainable development in Morocco. MARRAKECH (IDN) – Systems devised to organize local community participation in development emerged more than 70 years ago as a means to address poverty by involving people in […]
Powerful Rajapaksa Brothers’ Landslide in Sri Lanka Election Should Get “Liberals” Thinking
By Kalinga Seneviratne SINGAPORE (IDN) – The landslide victory of the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP – Sri Lanka Peoples’ Front) led by the Rajapaksa brothers throws a challenge to so-called “liberals” everywhere whose ideology may not be in sync when a huge portion of the electorate vote for a “strong” government rather than a […]
Three More Countries Ratify the UN Treaty to Ban the Bomb
By Tony Robinson The writer is Humanist Movement activist, coordinating committee member of Abolition 2000 – Global Network to Eliminate Nuclear Weapons, author of the book “Coffee with Silo and the quest for meaning in life” and producer of the film “The Beginning of the End of Nuclear Weapons”. The article originally appeared on Pressenza, […]